I am using this System, and have been running Win XP Pro for some while with no prob's
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 Dual core 6000
Mobo - ASUS M3N-H HDMI
Bios - Phoenix Tech' Ltd. ASUS M3N-H/HDMI ACPI
Revision 0601.26/26/04/2008
SMBIOS Vers' 2.5
Graph. - nVidia GF 8600 GT 1GB Mem
Mem - 2GB.

I decided to install Open SUSE 11.1 on to a 120GB IDE HDD which is not partitioned nor formatted, it is a good drive. I have found in the past that it is best to install SUSE on to an unpartitioned HDD and choosing automatic partitioning.

I booted from the installation DVD, checked the medium OK.
I then ran the firmware test with the following output.

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Firmware Tests On AMD Box using SUSE 11.1 installation DVD. 09/09/09

Linux Ready Firmware Developers Kit Release 3 (C) 2007 intel corp.
Result - 5 fail, 1 warn, 13 pass, total 19.

[fail] OS/2 Memory Hole Test
F Memory Map has memory hole between 15MB & 16MB.
[fail] EDD Boot Disk Hinting.
F Boot device does not support EDD.
[fail] DMI information check.
F no SMBIOS nor DMI entry points found.
[fail] CPU frequency scaling tests (1 - 2 mins)
8 CPU frequency steps supported
F supposedly higher frequency is slower on CPU "0"
F supposedly higher frequency is slower on CPU "0"
F supposedly higher frequency is slower on CPU "0"
F supposedly higher frequency is slower on CPU "0"
F supposedly higher frequency is slower on CPU "1"
F proccesors are set to SW_ANY
F firmware not implementing hardware coordination cleanly firmware using SW_ALL instead.
F firmware not implementing hardware coordination cleanly firmware using SW_ANY instead.
[fail] HPET configuration tests
F failed to locate HPET base

[warn] ACPI passive thermal trip points
W zone THRM doesn't support trip points at all.
[info] proccessor microcode update.
kernel to old : the kernel does not export microcode version.
kernel to old : the kernel does not export microcode version.
[info] (experimental) DMA remapping (UT-d) test.
no DMAR ACPI table found.
[info] battery tests.
no battery information present.


(pass) sum virtualisations extensions.
(pass) validate assigned PCI resources.
(pass) MTRR validation.
(pass) PCI express MaxReadReq tuning.
(pass) fan tests.
fan status is on.
(pass) EBDA region.
EBDA region is correctly reserved in the E820 table.
(pass) (experimental) APIC edge/level check.
(pass) general ACPI information.
(pass) DSDT AML verification
tested table DSDT.dsl.
(pass) sun duplicate tests.
tested _SUN ids, successfuly found no duplicates.

more info at HTTP :www.linuxfirmwarekit.org

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I can't understand any of this except that there are 5 fails & 1 warning, but 13 passes. I followed the link for more info, but could not understand much of that.

Could anyone please help,
I need to know roughly what the results mean,
Which failures that I can ignore safely,
How to solve the failures that need fixing,
Do the warning & info messages need any action.

Thanks.

From linuxfirmwarekit.org

Are you planning on doing CPU frequency scaling? Run the memory test, to test your memory. The link you posted could explain what the tests are in more detail. It sounds like the tests are more for developers of production systems. Yours is a stand-alone system. Check for hardware compatibility with your system, and if that all seems good then install Suse and run check it.

Thanks karlatLQ, no I do not intend CPU frequency scaling, just a straight install of SUSE 11.1. Hardware compat seems OK, so I will go ahead and install. rgds.